Creating a Twitter application
For this project, we will need to configure an application on the Twitter platform. It is necessary, because we will use Twitter's API to search Tweets, for example, and the Twitter account is the requirement for that. We will not explain how to create a Twitter account. There are plenty of articles about that on the internet.
After the Twitter account is created, we need to go to https://apps.twitter.com/ and create a new app. The page is quite similar to the following screenshot:
We will click on the Create New App
button to start the creation process. When we click on that button, the following page will be displayed. We need to fill the required fields and accept the Twitter agreements:
We can choose the application name, fill in the description, and website. These details are up to you.
Then, we need to accept the agreements and click on Create your Twitter application
:
Awesome job. Our Twitter application is almost ready to use.
Now, we just need to configure...